Subject: Re: java quesiton
From: Andrew Stout (astout2@swarthmore.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 03:41:35 MST
Forgive me for asking three questions in one night, and for the
newbie-ness of this one in particular... (I'm doing my best to
contribute answers as well as questions--I just have lots more of the
latter than the former...)
My immediate, although not necessarily primary, reason for wanting to
do Linux was so I could putz around in Java. The extent of my java
knowledge was one course two years ago, and I forgot it all
immediately. I wanted to do a bit of relearning over my winter break
(which is now almost over...), just 'cause I'm a big geek. But not
geek enough, it seems, because...
I've read as many of the relevant archived posts on java as I can
stomach, and I think they assume a level of familiarity that I just
haven't got. I gather that nothing Java comes with the YDL 2.1 I
just installed on this aging computer of mine, and that getting Java
to run under a PPC Linux isn't as straightforward as I thought. My
"simple" question is:
What do I need to do to get Java on my system?
I don't need to do anything fancy...just use my favorite text editor
to write HelloWorld.java, run $ javac HelloWorld.java, and $ java
HelloWorld and have it output "Hello, World". But I don't know my
JDKs from my JREs. What do I need to install, and where do I get it,
and how do I install it?
(Don't have the Tasty Morsels CD...I just dl'ed the iso... I made
the mistake of paying for LinuxPPC before trying it, and learned my
lesson--if YDL proves itself, I'll buy the next one...)
--Andrew "pesky newbie" Stout
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